Job accessibility, employment and job-education mismatch in the metropolitan area of Barcelona

Antonio Di Paolo, Anna Matas () and Josep Raymond ()

No XREAP2014-05, Working Papers from Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)

Abstract: This paper analyses the effect of job accessibility by public and private transport on labour market outcomes in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Beyond employment, we consider the effect of job accessibility on job-education mismatch, which represents a relevant aspect of job quality. We adopt a recursive system of equations that models car availability, employment and mismatch. Public transport accessibility appears as an exogenous variable in the three equations. Even though it may reflect endogenous residential sorting, falsification proofs suggest that the estimated effect of public transport accessibility is not entirely driven by the endogenous nature of residential decisions.

Keywords: employment; job-education mismatch; job accessibility; public transport; Barcelona (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J61 O18 P25 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2014-05, Revised 2014-05
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Working Paper: Job Accessibility, Employment and Job-Education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (2014)
Working Paper: Job Accessibility, Employment and Job-Education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (2014)
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